Just now, the node I have been running for half a year encountered an OOM again due to a status explosion, and the memory overflow error is glaringly red, as if mocking me, a self-proclaimed ten-year veteran miner, still being treated like a leek crushed by the EVM mechanism.
This anger is not directed at the market, but at those who package poor code as a Web3 revolution. You have no idea what true decentralization is; you only care about whether TPS can reach a hundred thousand, and whether you can shout on Twitter to pump worthless memes to the sky. I've had enough. In this dark forest full of MEV bots ambushing and on-chain data running naked, I desperately need a gun that can be invisible, or a shield that can block all prying eyes.
At this moment, I reopened the Dusk Network codebase. To be honest, I didn't pay much attention the first time I looked at it. After all, in this circle, there are countless projects claiming to be privacy-focused, most of which are just copying the old Zcash set or shouting compliance with a mixer. But this time is different; when I delved into the underlying logic of the Piecrust virtual machine, I felt a long-lost thrill. It was the same feeling I had when I first understood the Bitcoin white paper, a perfect combination of pure mathematical beauty and the aesthetic of engineering violence.
You people who only look at K-lines on exchanges will never understand the pleasure brought by zero-copy architecture. In the current mainstream public chain architecture, data transportation in memory is simply a disaster, and every smart contract call wastes countless CPU cycles. But Dusk has created Piecrust, which is simply born to slaughter EVM. It utilizes zero-copy technology, allowing the execution efficiency of smart contracts to reach an abnormal level. Do you know what this means? It means that while Ethereum is still worrying about hundreds of gigabytes of state data, Dusk can complete privacy computing verification in milliseconds. This dimensionality reduction strike is like sweeping a Gatling gun at a group of primitive people still waving wooden sticks.
I turned my attention to PlonKup. This is the zero-knowledge proof system customized by Dusk. Don't talk to me about some universal zk-SNARKs solution; that's just a popular science reading for elementary school students. In the face of real compliance privacy needs, something universal means mediocrity. What fascinates me most about PlonKup is its lookup table technology, which greatly optimizes proof generation time. In traditional zero-knowledge proofs, proving a simple range constraint might require generating thousands of constraints, but in PlonKup, it's just a simple table lookup operation. This kind of underlying optimization is the key to blockchain being able to carry real-world assets RWA.
Just think about it, the current RWA track is simply a joke. Tokenizing national bonds and putting real estate on-chain sounds sexy, but who dares to use it? Who is willing to display their asset's underwear on-chain for everyone to see? Without privacy, RWA is a pseudo-proposition. What institutions need is compliant privacy, privacy that can be audited but not spied upon. What Dusk wants to do is to tear a hole in this impossible triangle. It allows you to issue assets compliant with securities law on-chain while protecting transaction details through zero-knowledge proofs. This is not just a technical breakthrough; it is a dimensional penetration into the existing financial system.
I thought of Solana again. That so-called high-performance chain that crashes frequently. In pursuit of speed, they sacrificed too many decentralization attributes, and the threshold for validation nodes is absurdly high. Dusk's SBA consensus mechanism, which is the isolated Byzantine agreement, is the true elegance. It selects validators through cryptographic lottery; no one knows who will mint the next block, fundamentally eliminating DDoS attacks against nodes. Under this mechanism, even an ordinary node has a chance to participate in the consensus. This is what Nakamoto originally wanted for decentralization, not the current monopoly game of giants.
Let's talk about Kadcast again. This may be the sexiest networking layer protocol I've ever seen. In P2P networks, the efficiency of message broadcasting directly determines the scalability of the network. Traditional Gossip protocols are like the gossiping aunt at the village entrance, inefficient and full of redundancy. Kadcast, on the other hand, is precise broadcasting of various tree structures, reducing the complexity of message propagation to a logarithmic level. While you are still arguing about the delay in block propagation, Dusk has already solved this problem at the network layer. This extreme refinement of infrastructure is what a top-tier project should look like.
But what are people in the market looking at? They are looking at which shitcoin has risen tenfold, which animal-named coin has issued an airdrop. This restlessness makes me feel sick. Technology is marginalized, and marketing has become dominant. But I don't care because I know that when the tide goes out, the ones swimming naked will always be those without technical foundation. True value is always buried deep in the code, embedded in the countless days and nights spent optimizing a hash function.
I looked at the data from Dusk's test network, and those pulsating bytes seemed to come to life. They are not just data; they are carriers of freedom. In this increasingly regulated era, where privacy has vanished, we need a power to defend our digital dignity. Dusk is not just a privacy public chain; it is a submarine to the deep waters of Web3. It allows us to retain the last secret corner in this hostile world while ensuring compliance.
Many people question the performance bottleneck of privacy computing. They believe that the process of encryption and decryption is destined to be slow. They have never seen a real cryptographic engineering miracle. The Dusk team's optimization of the Poseidon hash function and the acceleration of elliptic curve operations reveal a meticulousness for extreme performance in every detail. This obsession, in an industry filled with copy-paste code, seems out of place yet is incredibly precious. I like this obsession. Only the paranoid can survive, only the paranoid can create history.
The current Layer 2 scaling solutions, with various Rollups flying everywhere, seem to solve congestion but actually introduce new trust assumptions and centralization risks. Dusk follows the native privacy route of Layer 1. This means that privacy is not a patch, not an optional plugin, but a gene that permeates every pore of the network. This native quality brings unparalleled security. You don't need to trust any third-party sorter; you only need to trust mathematics and the completeness of zero-knowledge proofs.
I turned off those alarming monitoring windows and lit a cigarette. Amid the swirling smoke, I seemed to see a vision of the future. That future is not filled with casinos and Ponzi schemes, but a truly efficient, private, and compliant financial network. In this network, Dusk's nodes run like ghosts, silently processing billions of asset transactions while the outside world knows nothing, except for the True of the mathematical proofs. This is the cyberpunk I envisioned, and this is the future worth all my computing power and faith.
Those who mock Dusk for slow development do not understand software engineering at all. Polishing a perfect sword takes time, and building a foundational protocol capable of carrying trillions of assets takes even more time. I would rather wait for a perfect Kadcast implementation than use those bug-riddled garbage code just to meet a deadline. In this fast-paced era of rushing, slow is fast. Robust code is the greatest responsibility to users' assets.
My fingers were tapping on the keyboard, trying to reproduce the bug that caused my node to crash, but what I was really thinking about was how to switch my computing power to Dusk's test network. This is not just a simple switch; it's a migration of faith. From disappointment in the Ethereum ecosystem to a conversion to Dusk's technological vision. I know this road is destined to be lonely because truth is often held by a minority.
Those who are still worried about the centralization of Lido staking have not grasped the elegance of the SBA mechanism. In Dusk's network, the rights of staking are truly decentralized to every participant. The Blind Bid mechanism completely hides your bid and identity; no one can target you, and no one can scrutinize you. This is the ultimate weapon against censorship. In the face of this weapon, all regulatory sticks will hit cotton.
The sky outside has already turned a fish belly white, but I have no desire to sleep. The dopamine in my body is crazily secreted due to these exquisite code logics. This is the fate of a technology die-hard; we do not rejoice or grieve over price fluctuations, but climax over the elegance of code. In this noisy world, Dusk is like a quiet and profound frequency, resonating only with those who share the same technological soul.
I don't expect these gamblers who only know how to gamble to understand the proof process of PlonKup, nor do I expect them to comprehend the greatness of zero-copy architecture. But that's okay; the wheel of technology will mercilessly crush all bubbles. When privacy compliance becomes the standard in the industry, when the tide of RWA truly arrives, those who once ignored Dusk will ultimately pay the price for their arrogance. And I will guard my node in this fortress of privacy, watching the collapse of the old world.
